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Oracle's fiscal 2026 annual report became the clearest public admission yet that AI is directly reducing enterprise headcount at scale: 13 percent of the company's global workforce, $1.84 billion in severance costs, and an explicit warning that further reductions are coming as internal AI deployment grows.
A class-action complaint filed in federal court accuses six major fuel retailers of using Kalibrate's AI pricing algorithm to collectively inflate California gas prices by up to 22 cents per gallon — the first major test of the state's new AB 325 law banning shared algorithmic pricing.
Meta's new glasses — called simply Meta Glasses — arrive at $299 in three frame styles, made with EssilorLuxottica but without the Ray-Ban name. They pack a camera, speakers, and Meta AI integration, and land one week after Snap's competing Specs at $2,195.
OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program with a new open-source patching initiative built with Trail of Bits, and fully released GPT-5.5-Cyber — its most capable security AI — alongside a commercial partner program with Cisco, CrowdStrike, and IBM.
The open-weight AI startup, founded by ex-Google DeepMind researchers and valued at $25 billion, will pay SpaceX $150 million per month for GPU access starting July 2026 — adding to SpaceX's rapidly growing roster of external compute customers at its Memphis data center.
The two companies are co-developing Project Kilby, a natural gas-fired power plant in the Permian Basin that will supply electricity to Microsoft's planned $7 billion AI data center complex — the largest energy deal between an oil major and a tech company to date.
CVE-2026-8461, a heap overflow in FFmpeg's MagicYUV decoder rated CVSS 8.8, affects Jellyfin, Nextcloud, OBS Studio, Kodi, and potentially Slack, Discord, and Telegram. Patch now: FFmpeg 8.1.2.
Paradigm Shift, a Barcelona-based security firm, has disclosed usbliter8 — a permanent Boot ROM vulnerability affecting iPhone XS, XR, and iPhone 11 devices that no software update can fix.
Getty Images shares surged roughly 200% in premarket trading Monday after the stock photo giant announced a licensing agreement with OpenAI to integrate its curated image library into ChatGPT's search features. The deal marks a significant pivot for Getty, which previously sued an AI image generator over unauthorized use of its content.
Intelligence chiefs from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand issued a rare joint warning Monday, stating that AI systems capable of undermining governments and critical businesses could be operational within months, and calling for urgent coordinated action.
South Korea's memory chip giant SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics in market capitalization, ending a 25-year reign at the top of the KOSPI. The shift reflects AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory chips, where SK Hynix holds a commanding lead.
WeChat users in China can now invoke Xiaowei by text or voice to send messages, start calls, and navigate the app's vast mini-program library — putting an AI command layer on top of the world's most-used super app ahead of a full Q3 rollout.